* The Chinese crackdown in Tibet has led to calls of boycotting the Olympic Games in Beijing this summer. That controversy brings to mind the uproar over the Tlatleloco massacre which occurred ten days before the start of the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
* Is Venezuela’s government illegally intervening in Peruvian affairs?
* “If you love Wyclef that means you love Haiti,” said musician Wyclef Jean in a series of anti-crime ads.
* Malaysian immigration authorities are embarrassed after it was revealed that a senior officer did not know where Uruguay was located.
Sources- Associated Press, Yahoo! News, Monsters & Critics, Christian Science Monitor, NME.com, New Straits Times
Image- CBC (“University students are held at gunpoint by soldiers inside an apartment building in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, on Oct. 2, 1968. (AP photo)”)
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